In a few words this module behaves like the "manufacturers" feature in X-Cart 4 with the one major change: instead of a custom product field this module uses a global product attribute to store the brand name.

The use of a product attribute:

a) allows you to enable the "brands" feature after you added the "brand" product attribute and defined brands for your products (the module will import existing brands)

b) makes it possible to filter by brand in the layered navigation offered by Product Filter module

Feel free to ask me should you have any questions or suggestions for the module.

The new 5.1.3 version of Shop By Brand module is available for downloading from X-Cart Marketplace!

Now the module:
- offers the ability to manually sort brands and choose the order in which brands should be shown in the storefront (order by name / by the number of products / as defined by the store owner)
- comes with the built-in Russian translation
- includes a few bug-fixes